A better defense is covering openings with reinforced plywood so air flows over not into the house.
Open windows and doors during tornado.
Many people near a tornado tell of their ears popping due to the pressure change.
Leave the windows alone.
Windows should be opened before a tornado to equalize pressure and minimize damage.
Opening a window brings in high pressure air which then must escape.
Opening windows allows damaging winds to enter the structure.
Researchers found it didn t hold up.
Open windows and doors in other words resulted in an airborne roof source.
It is now believed that a solid structure no windows or doors open has.
If a tornado s winds are strong enough to hurl a car hundreds of feet through the air and scour asphalt off the road then your windows being open or closed won t make the slightest bit of difference.
That s usually out other windows or doors or through the ceiling or roof.
Leaving windows open actually caused the force of the tornado to push up on the roof of the house while the gusts of the twister lifted the roof.
Opening the windows is absolutely useless a waste of precious.